Fred and the Fantastic Tub-Tub
Hardback | 48 pages | 200 x 200mm
A magical and musical adventure, Fred and the Fantastic Tub-Tub is the latest book by author of the Gaspard the Fox series Zeb Soanes. In this illustrated picture book for ages 7-9, we follow the adventure of Fred as she travels with her grand pato the fictional island of Papa-Nupi. Together they search for the musical plant, the Tub Tub.
This humorous and engaging adventure story was born from talks between Zeb and composer James Marangone. James wanted to create an inclusive narrated adventure that inspired children to explore sound regardless of their musical ability. The story was written to go alongside the music and is fast paced and enjoyable with clear ‘audio clues’ that children can listen out for in the text. Accompanied by Anja Uhren’s fantastic illustrations, this a story told through three art forms: illustration, music and writing.
'Beautifully topical, Fred and the Fantastic Tub-Tub is a thrilling and wondrous adventure, where the power of music and nature inspire us all to make the world a better place.’ Dame Judi Dench
The Author & Illustrator
The Author - Zeb Soanes
Zeb Soanes is a children’s author and broadcaster. He presents weekday evenings on Classic FM. For over 20 years, he was a newsreader and reassuring voice of the Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4. He has written for The Observer, Country Life, and The Literary Review and his best-selling first book for children, Gaspard the Fox began a series of stories based on the real urban fox that visits him at home in London. He has earned a reputation as ‘the go-to person for music narration’ with the UK’s leading orchestras, performing favourite works for children including Paddington’s First Concert and Peter and the Wolf. In recognition of his efforts to culturally rehabilitate the urban fox, he was made the first patron of the Mammal Society.
Anja Uhren is a storyteller - working with images as well as words to deliver narratives. She was chosen to illustrate one of the books in Nicola Davies’s Shadows and Light series, Mother Cary’s Butter Knife, which published in 2016.
The Illustrator - Anja Uhren
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Reviews on Fred
‘Fred and the Fantastic Tub-Tub is a children’s story with an ambitious vision. At its heart is a crucial environmental message, but along the way it shares the wonders of botany, flying machines and - of course - the universal language of music’ BBC Music Magazine
'A magical adventure that embraces the threat plastic pollution poses to wildlife as well as showing the transformative possibilities of music and the difference one small hand held device can make.' Jill Bennett, Red Reading Hub
Further Media
‘An exciting journey into a world of enchanted flowers.’Alan Titchmarsh, MBE
The book is a brilliant tool for teachers of KeyStage 2 children, providing opportunities todiscuss a range of different subjects includingscience (plant species), music, literacy andcreative writing, geography, art, design andtechnology, history and more.
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